'Tau day' marked by opponents of maths constant pi

BBC ^ | June 28, 2011 | Jason Palmer

[decimon]

Ping

To get your mind off of that bogus Hebrew tablet. ;-)

[GeronL]

anti-Pi??

I have heard of some trivial causes but this has got to be high on that list.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

the british communistic collective is good at these stories to nowhere. Don’t be enthralled.

[Billthedrill]

It's too late for temperance. We will not rid ourselves of the overbearing Pi hegemony until we burn this miserable society down TO THE LAST STICK!! Oh, sure, there'll be starvation, plague, misery and death, but isn't it worth it?

Oh, it isn't? OK, never mind.

[OldNewYork]

Because multiplying by 2 is so difficult?

[ClearCase_guy]

[enduserindy]

tau, pi, all Greek to me.

[freedumb2003]

>>anti-Pi??<<

Pi R not squared. Pi R round....

(OK, it is a joke older than the formula itself but what the heck...) ;)

[Batrachian]

It's weird how the British say "maths". I very much doubt that Newton ever said "maths".

Fun fact of the day: Newton was a life-long virgin.

[Mr. Mojo]

it's amazing how many people express their displeasure with pi in the strongest possible terms - often involving profanity.

lol...the author must run with quite a crowd.

[patton]

Ah, I have seen mathematikers become pugalists, over just some trivia as this.

Shock, horror, and finally - humor.

What can I say, I had to laugh.

[Tzimisce]

...as long as Rebecca Black isn’t making a “Tau Day” video, I’m not really concerned....

[SoothingDave]

These fools propose we all memorize that the area of a circle is one-half tau times r squared?

[Kirkwood]

I propose a new unit called the dolt. 1 dolt equals 28 kilobidens. 1 square biden equals 1 obamadon. 1 obamadon equals 10^-8 erg-pelosi.

[Rebelbase]

Cornbreads’ square.

[DManA]

With today’s computers it takes 0.00001 seconds to multiply by 2.

As if there’s not enough to fight about.

[yarddog]

It will be harder to make jokes with Tau.

“No, Pie are round, cornbread are square”

[BitWielder1]

Everybody wants a piece of pi.

[Bockscar]

But I like Pi.

(Ok. I apologize for making a 'sick joke'. I could not resist)